Pursuant to its policy statement, FCM h
establisned a partnership with the International Counc
for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) on

international campaign, Cities for Climate Protection,
which encourages municipalities to reduce their
emissions of greenhouse gases. ICLEL is the
international environmental agency for local

governments.

In order to support the Cities for Climate
Protection initiative, municipal Councils are invited to
adopt the enclosed Canadian Declaration on Climate
Change. By adopting the Declaration, each municipal

government endeavours to:

develop an action plan to reduce local emissions
of greenhouse gases;

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reduce energy use and emissions associated with
municipally-controlled buildings and vehicles; and

undertake initiatives to change public attitudes
and behaviour.

In order to help in the development. of local
strategies, participating municipal governments will be
provided with:

a basic framework on planning and management that
will include a broad municipal agenda on climate
change and analytical methods for determining
local energy baselines and scenarios;-

a periodic newsletter, Local Energy News, that
highlights local initiatives as well as relevant
national and ‘international developments to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions; and

the opportunity to join innovative local model
projects for reducing energy use in buildings and
transportation in intensive collaborative
research. These research projects will produce
model municipal bylaws, case studies of successful »
local initiatives, as well as useful new
analytical tools and comparative insights into the'
determinants of municipal energy use; and